"There is one thing new in sexual mores and that is today's bisexual chic. ... if you can't truthfully claim to be bisexual yourself, the next best thing is to reveal that one, or both, of your parents was."

“Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making...”

“At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.”

“If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer.”

“While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.”

“Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay.”

“When you try to be true to the script, changes occur. A script is there to show us a certain direction. But when you actually have the actors in and you start shooting the movie, you have the actor say a line and it doesn't sound right so you change it and make it different. It's the script that gives birth to these changes and the more you try to stay true to the script, the more that happens.”

“The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I do not see how I can put it in words.”

“If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.”

Source : Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.